The presentation will show the conceptual possibilities and concrete examples from ZHAW projects. We discuss the opportunities and challenges of using generative AI in the customer lifecycle. Examples include content creation automation and the use of co-pilots in customer service.
PD Dr. habil. HSG Jochen Wulf ZHAW Engineering Institut für Datenanalyse und Prozessdesign
Prof. Dr. Frank Hannich ZHAW Management and Law Fachstelle Customer Management & e-Commerce
Online by Microsoft Teams, Participants get an access link after registration. Number of places limited. See also the flyer for more information.
As organizations integrate advanced AI systems into their business, ensuring their safety, reliability, and robustness becomes a critical priority. However, AI testing remains a complex and evolving field. Key questions from an organizational perspective are: What expertise is required to ensure a secure application? Who is responsible for testing? When do you test? How much testing is enough? How much will it cost?
With this workshop, we want to explore and discuss common challenges within the domain of testing AI applications. We want your input for our initiative to develop cost effective AI safety testing programs. For a warmup, a hands-on demo exercise lets us experiment jailbreaking a LLM and assessing the effectiveness of these jailbreaks (no technical expertise required). Next, we explore in groups common challenges, approaches, and structures that help us address this topic from an organizational perspective. We reconvene to review the practical question around AI safety testing and identify what is needed to help businesses plan and run AI tests.
Who will get the most out of this: CISOs and AI safety specialists DPOs, Compliance and Risk Management Leaders AI Product Managers, AI Product Designers or leaders of AI projects
What to bring: A laptop or willingness to work in groups. Your expertise to share ideas.
Sign-up: The workshop will be limited to 25 people. Please reserve your spot with this link:
Save the date! The data innovation alliance and Innovation Booster Artificial Intelligence invite you to participate in the Expert Day, hosted by Center of Research & Methods of HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich. We are excited to bring together three Expert Groups (EG): EG Industrial AI, EG Smart Services, and EG Governance for Growth with Data & AI.
Join us for an insightful afternoon with presentations, engaging discussions, and potential collaborations. Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with experts and exchange ideas and experiences.
The detailed program will follow shortly.
Agenda
Prof. Claude Meier (Leiter Center for Research & Methods HWZ) Sven Remke (Managing Director data innovation alliance)
Innovation literature mostly talks about radical innovation, significant steps that transform markets. Still, most of the innovation is happening incrementally. New product versions are released with new features, serving the existing market. In this talk, I will present a few thoughts on changing one’s viewpoint. Seeing things from a different angle may help to discover new approaches to customers’ challenges. How this relates to Monty Python remains to be seen.
During the coffee break you’ll have the opportunity to join one or more posters sessions with the following topics:
How to make AI usable for trends and developments in Banking & Finance (e.g. for Open Finance)?
How to automatise qualitative content analysis with AI? Basis: A study done to climate communication of Swiss companies.
Actual AI-based research projects at HWZ.
We are looking forward to exciting discussions.
Would you like to explore how AI can drive innovation in your industry? Join us for the first meeting of the new “Industrial AI” Expert Group.
What is on the program? ⚙️ Learn how the Innovation Booster facilitates collaboration and accelerates industrial AI solutions. ⚙️ Hear from companies that have successfully leveraged the AI Booster in past and ongoing projects. ⚙️ Engage in an interactive session to assess your company’s AI potential and explore new ideas.
We are looking forward to meet you there!
Biruk, Maik, Thomas, Manuel and Lilach
The Expert Group “Smart Services” will have an ideation session, with Gerrit Schatte from Kistler moderating the discussion about the following topics:
Software / services as upselling product for hardware
Software / services as enablers to sell hardware in the system network at all
Almost any physical product sold in the EU may soon require a digital counterpart that provides access to data on materials, recycling, supply chains, and production. In just two years, this will apply to the first product group: batteries.
What can we expect from the digital product pass in Switzerland? Join us for an interactive session with Peter Krummenacher from Bloqsense, where we will explore challenges, requirements, opportunities, and the potential of data governance.
After a sold-out event with stellar feedback, Uphill Conf returns for its fifth edition to dive even deeper into the transformative power of AI in software development. This year, we’ll uncover new perspectives and explore fresh advancements, showcasing how AI continues to reshape problem-solving in software engineering
Get in-depth insights in our full day workshops on Thursday, April 24, 2025. The workshops are hosted by recognized experts and will give you the chance for an immersive learning experience, featuring practical, hands-on activities.
Gain valuable insights at our talks on Friday, April 25, 2025. Delivered by leading experts, these sessions will explore cutting-edge topics and offer fresh perspectives, providing a unique opportunity to deepen your knowledge and spark new ideas.
Deep-dive training in the key areas of Ethical Transparency, Ethical Privacy, Ethical Accountability, and Ethical Algorithmic Bias. Participants who successfully complete the training receive a certificate from IEEE Standards Association, thus achieving the first step towards becoming an IEEE CertifAIEd™ authorized assessor.
This training is the first of its kind in Switzerland and is provided by IEEE CertifAIEd™ certified trainers.
Audience: Representatives of academia (universities), NGO’s and from the private sector in the Zurich region and beyond interested in becoming leaders in AI ethics assessments.
We invite all members of the data innovation alliance and also external partners to contribute to a planning workshop. In this workshop, we will shape the content of two public events in 2025 that address pressing issues in data and AI with a particular focus on startups and companies active in the field. The goal of these events is to provide both an overview on relevant topic and to show concrete options for responsible data-based value creation. At the event, we will also update you on other activities of the Data Ethics Expert group and indicate funding possibilities (AI Booster) in order to turn some of the pressing questions into solution-oriented projects.
The workshop takes place on Wednesday February 19 from 16:30 to 18:00 at the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich (Rämistrasse 69). Please register below if you plan to participate until Monday February 17.
If you are unable to attend, please provide your ideas in this short survey, where you also can rate proposed topics – the results will be used also in the planning workshop:
The Swiss NLP Days 2025 are a series of activities in 2025 about Natural Language Processing (NLP), which will take place May 13-15, 2025 in Winterthur, Switzerland. They provide a unique opportunity for everyone interested in NLP applications to connect with experts and gain insights into the current state of NLP, and they serve as a platform for NLP professionals to present their work and exchange with potential clients and other NLP experts.
The Swiss NLP Days consist of two main events:
An NLP Expo for the interested public with more than 70 exhibitors which present current industrial and academic solutions in NLP.
A scientific conference called SwissText for researchers and NLP experts.
These two events are accompanied by an NLP Crash Course – Insightful sessions on practical applications and fundamental technologies of Natural Language Processing – throughout the year with workshops and tutorials.
The Swiss NLP Days 2025 mark the 10th anniversary of the SwissText conference, which was initiated in 2016 by NLP researchers at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).
Led by industry and academic experts, the NLP Crash Course explores a wide range of NLP topics and aims to help participants understand how NLP can be applied in various business and organizational contexts.
Perfect preparation for the NLP Expo 2025. Biweekly. Free of charge.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mascha Kurpicz-Briki (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
Led by industry and academic experts, the NLP Crash Course explores a wide range of NLP topics and aims to help participants understand how NLP can be applied in various business and organizational contexts.
Perfect preparation for the NLP Expo 2025. Biweekly. Free of charge.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rico Sennrich (University of Zurich)
Are you ready to discover the future of talent and innovation matching? Join us for this webinar on the “Future of Work” where experts from the Data Innovation Alliance, Rockstar Recruiting and Innofuse share insights, prototypes, and platforms designed to address one of the biggest challenges in today’s professional landscape: connecting the right people with the right opportunities across companies and industries.
Agenda
Dr. Reik Leiterer, data innovation alliance – Introduction, Challenges in Matching Skillsets
Dr. Klaus Fuchs, Rockstar Recruiting AG – Presenting AI based CV Screening (Results from Databooster), Q&A
Ivan Sanicola, Founder Innofuse – working principles of the Innofuse platform – innovation matchmaking.
Dr. Reik Leiterer, data innovation alliance – Sum-up and IB AI Funding Opportunities
What’s in Store?
The Challenge: The Data Innovation Alliance kicks off with a deep dive into the complexities of matching skills across diverse sectors and organizations, highlighting the critical need for smarter, scalable solutions.
AI in Action: How to mitigate the inbound floor of AI-assisted job applications? Klaus Fuchs from Rockstar Recruiting presents an novel AI-based VC screening prototype developed through a Data Booster booster – saving recruiters valuable time by analyzing and pre-filtering hundreds of CVs in parallel – making recruiting faster, cheaper and fairer for everyone involved.
Collaboration Reimagined: Ivan from Innofuse showcases their innovative platform, designed to connect potential project stakeholders from different organizations through skill-based matching. Discover how this ecosystem enables seamless collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Funding Opportunities: Wrap up with an outlook from the Data Innovation Alliance on available funding mechanisms to bring your own innovative projects to life.
Why Attend?
This webinar is a must for recruiters, HR professionals, innovators, and project leaders looking to harness the power of AI and collaborative platforms to drive efficiency, foster innovation, and unlock new opportunities.
Don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve. Secure your spot now and be part of the conversation shaping the future of work and innovation.
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